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What I think I see on the obverse, letters suggesting “…M ANTONINVS…” that can sort of be made out between 7:00 & 10:00 on the
obverse, I think this may well be a Denarius of Marcus Aurelius, either late during the time he was Caesar to Antoninus Pius or early
in his rule as Augustus – this based on the short, neat beard as opposed to the long and scraggly-tending beard in his later portraits.
It might also be Antoninus Pius – I give a couple possible comparative examples below. Unfortunately, silver was never a specific
goal for me in collecting, so the examples I have are sparse and nothing that matches yours exactly. The obverse of yur piece also
appears to have been somewhat double-struck – you can see doubling in the nose – and that is seldom good news for legend readers.

Mark Lehman

The guys have made a great start to the 2nd half of the season. Boston Beau popped our first gold with a sweet George III milled and
then a crisp Roman silver. Wash Tom’s crew found a new Roman silver hoard on more new land a farmer asked us to seach this
season. Mo Dan’s found the first 3 and called the guys overto help search the area. In the end they got 14 Roman silvers and Dan
ended up with 6 by himself. They were very closed togther and therefore reported to the museum as hoard. Our Roman expert
Mark Lehman has ID’d all of them and the date spread is again very closely linked.

Septimius Severus (193-211) SEVERVS AVG [PART MAX?] laureate head right / [VICT AETERN?] Victory hovering left holding garland above shield set on base. Struck 200, RIC 170; RSC 670. There are a couple of different legends found with this reverse type, I believe Vict Aetern is the most likely. Mark

Hoard 13- 2.70g, 19mm

Vespasian (69-79) [IMP C]AESAR VESPASIANV[S AVG] (counter-clockwise) laureate head of Vespasian right / TR POT X COS VIII naked radiate figure standing facing atop rostral column, struck 79. RIC (119 old vol II)- 1064-5; RSC 559. It should be obvious that this does nt belong to the same hoard/loss as all the similarly encrusted Antonine and Severan denarii from up to a century and a half later.

Your photo of the reverse is upside-down – the legend is VOTA PVBLICA – who’s on the obverse is a bit more challenging question, although it looks like one of the youthful Severans. More books cracked: Geta, Caesar ( 198-209) [GETA CAES] PONT COS youthful bare-headed and draped bust of Geta Caesar, right, seen from behind. VOTA PVBLICA, Geta, togate standing left sacrificing over tripod altar. Struck 205, RIC 38b; RSC 230

Hoard 9 &10 – 6.91g,17mm (one coin dia)

only part of one coin’s obverse is visible, it looks like it may be “[A]NTON[…] indicating probably Caracalla, reverse is two standing figures and legend is too badly obscured to read, but I suspect it’s a duplicate of # 6 and the reverse is PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS. 9b reverse is FELICITAS AVG, Felicitas likely standing left holding caduceus and cornucopiae and obverse is too well covered by 9a to be readable at all. Both pieces are almost certainly from the Severan era since that’s pretty much when all the others are on the time line, except for Trajan, of course, and Antoninus Pius. The Severan era included quite a few individuals, both male and female, between 193-238.

Hoard 8 – 3.17g, 17mm

. I think what little of the portrait is visible suggests Antoninus Pius, 139-161 – reverse totally obscured but seems to be a figure (possibly Victory) standing or walking left holding object (wreath?) in outstretched right hand.

Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Caracalla (and Geta) so her coins’ time frame is 193-217. Obverse: [IVLIA] AVGVSTA. The reverse is IVNO [REGI]NA Juno standing left with peacock at her feet. This type was issued at both Rome and Laodicea (in the mid east) they can only be told apart by style – this appears to be a Rome mint product.

Hoard 3 – 3.46g, 17mm

Posthumous issue for Faustina the younger by her husband Marcus Aurelius – Faustina II died in 175 and M. Aurelius outlived her until 181 – so that’s the time frame, 175-181. Again, the reverse is so profoundly encrusted that it’s not possible to determine the reverse type

Hoard 2 – 2.89g,18mm

Trajan, 96-117, Mars advancing left carrying trophy and holding spear. Not enough of the reverse legend is clear to date it accurately, but the reverse reads something like this: P M TR P (xxx) COS (x VI) P P S P Q R – This seems to be the only piece which does not date to the Severan era in this batch.

Hoard 1 – 3.17g, 17mm

Faustina the elder, wife of Antoninus Pius and mother of Faustina the younger. Posthumous issue by Antoninus pius, Faustina died 141 so it dates between 141-160. Reverse is too profoundly encrusted to determine type, although it might have the legend AVGVSTA (if so, the photo is upside-down) otherwise, it’s a legend ending in “AVG” and could be any of literally dozens of types.

The 2nd half of the season kicks off in Feb and more new land has been offered to us by local farmers. I have posted maps
and details on the members forum.

During the off season I have just been banging away producing export license applications for the first half of the season. I have less
than half a dozen to finish now before the guys arrive again. I have posted another load of missed finds to the bottom of the
last hunt page Oct 2017 finds page and it also includes some of the latest ‘cooking’ ancient silver coin updates, check them out.

I have been updating this year’s forum competition page as I process guys export bags, check out your guess and latest count
here 2017 Forum comp.

This one isn’t “Republican”, strictly speaking – it belongs to the vague, in-betweensy period typically called “Imperatorial”,
but which is not all that well-defined in time. It ends, definitively, with the accession of Augustus to the Imperial throne in 27 B.C.
– when, exactly, it starts depends on who you are asking, but this era contains the rules of Julius Caesar, Pompey, Marcus Antonius,
The “Triumvirates”, etc. In fact, this is an issue of Julius Caesar’s, c. 46/5 BC, struck at a mint in Spain. Diademed head of Venus
Genetrix right, erote on shoulder / “Gallia” and a Gaulish captive bound, seated at base of trophy – it’s not legible (yet) but it should
have “CAESAR” in the exergue. The Gaulish captive may be supposed to represent VircingetorixCrawford 468/1, Sydenham 1014; RSC Julius Caesar 13.Nice find! – that’s the second Caesar denarius your diggers have found recently in addition to all the Republican stuff – you must be
on some late 1st century B.C. – or early 1st century AD (pre-invasion) site.Mark

I had a meeting with the museum last week and picked up a load of disclaimed treasures including several beautiful plough
damaged medieval gold rings that I dropped off to our goldsmith for repair. I picked up the latest batch of fixed hammered
silver including this cracking double sided gold ring seal matrix below. I left our goldsmith some other very tricky reapairs
to do including a broken 17thC silver seal matrix and just the very top of a medieval sapphire gold ring. I will post before
and after pictures after they are completed in a month or so.

I have just received back the first batch of approved export licenses and posted names list on the members forum.
I have been updating this year’s forum competition page as I process guys bags, check out your guess and latest count
here 2017 Forum comp.

Broken Georgian double sided seal matrix ring now fixed like new.

1300 BC Ancient rolled gold sheet

5.23g, 14mm L

Org Danny just unrolled his Bronze Age disclaimed gold treasure find – it is 8 inches long and has holes in each end
indicating an open ended wrist armlet. It would be great to have to fixed and returned to a typical wrist band like below.

Iron Age wrist/arm band

800-year-old coin minted by Henry III but then scrapped when blundering officials realised it was worth
more as gold than its face value is expected to make £500,000 at auction

It’s time to update the individual pages with the finds from the first half of the season. There have been a number
of ‘firsts’ for the club to add to our sets including an extremely rare new Celtic tribe, our smallest ever hammered silver
coin,Henry VIII portcullis farthing find. Loads of new Army Regiment buttons and new 17thC trade farthing issuers.
Check out the pages updated so far below.

I am now starting the export license process and adding missed finds to the bottom of the latest finds below link.
I have already posted a load more new finds including a couple of real nice Saxon gilded items.

The first half of the seasons hunts ended today and the guys made some amazing finds. I still have tons more to
photo and upload to the latest find page yet. Keep checking the link above.

Penn Christy was here last week and received her engraved silver urn for winning ‘find of the year’ last seaon. Her
spectacular Medieval gold annular brooch above is currently progressing through the Treasure process and is currently
with the British Museum in London.

The coin you sent, incidentally, is a Maldon Wheel quarter, ABC 2234, rather than the standard South Thames British Qc type. Both are included in my forthcoming book – being published by Chris Rudd any day now – “Divided Kingdoms: the Iron Age Gold Coinage of Southern England”. Every type and variety is illustrated and the 10,300 or so known up to around 2015 are all catalogued with full pedigrees; the many coins recorded through your good self are referred to as ‘Inf. C.M.’

All the best

John

The Remi were a Belgic people of north-eastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica). The Romans regarded them as a civitas, a
major and influential polity of Gaul,The Remi occupied the northern Champagne plain, on the southern fringes of
the Forest of Ardennes, between the rivers Mosa (Meuse) and Matrona (Marne), and along the river valleys of the
Aisne and its tributaries the Aire and the Vesle.

Their capital was at Durocortum (Reims, France) the second largest oppidum of Gaul on the Vesle. Allied with the
Germanic tribes of the east, they repeatedly engaged in warfare against the Parisii and the Senones.They were
renowned for their horses and cavalry.

5thC Roman silver coin used by the Saxons to resemble a sceat and used as a pendant

Sent to Mark Lehman for his ID

I told you I’d get back to you on this one – so far as I can determine from the very few legible letters,
this is a siliqua of Gratian, 367-383 AD, the obverse legend should be [D N] GRATIA[NVS P F AVG].
The reverse type is VRBS ROMA with Roma enthroned left holding Victory. The mint mark is fairly
unclear, but I think it may be AQP[S] for the mint at Aquilea. Having two holes would tend to indicate that this piece needed to be “fixed” in its position, but the
orientation of neither the obverse nor reverse seems to have been of importance. The holes are pretty
large and silver coins were used a lot less often for this, but coins so holed could be sewn to a leather
jerkin for a bit of DIY “scale” armor. Or perhaps it was part of a bit of jewelry of some sort which
needed to attach at two points as part of a necklace or bracelet.

I have posted hundreds of great relics and coins to a new Oct finds page on the old site. I have not had time
to upload them all to this new database. Ron’s team found over 80 hammered silver coins alone in the last couple
of weeks and there were some real rare beauties amoung them. Keep checking the Oct finds page as I have several
hundred more finds to upload yet including more Celtic gold, a beauty Saxon sceat and a stunning seal matrix.

The guys have been on fire again over the last couple of weeks. Maryl Scott who won last years
‘pouch of the year’ award was on a mission to keep the cup this season again and popped 3 gold coins
and an early BC Silver Roman. I promised him after he popped the first two that if he found me a 3rd to
fondle I would give him one of our Colchester Club T shirts. Naturally Scotty banged one in and it was a
rare Henry VI hammered gold. His best mate Jimbo did not club him to death during his reign of terror
and was rewarded on his last day with one of theearliest Celtic golds you can find, a 150BC Gallo Beligic quater.
Meanwhile another one of their best mates Ga Buddy popped a beauty Dubnovellaunus full stater with a full Kings
legend on it.Buddy soaked it in lemon juice and all the brown stain has come off. I will post cleaned up pictures
later as it is mega crisp.

Not to be outdone Mitch Terry on his first trip to the club banged in a mint Cunobelin qtr stater.
The guys ended up with 6 gold for their trip 2 milled gold, 3 Celtic and the best looking hammered gold I have ever
seen dug and our first ever Henry VI half noble.

Iron Age, mid-2nd century BCProbably made in northern France or Belgium

Not be out done by a newbie Chicago Ron found a Celtic qtr gold stater I had never seen before. It looked like a Morini boat tree but was underweight
by 0.5g and debased gold. I sent it of to the expert John Still at the CCI for advice and it turns out to be an exceptional find for Essex.
That is Ch Ron’s 19th gold coin and still our top gold finder in the club.

50BC Durotrigan Cletic gold qtr stater 1.44g,10.5mm

Sorry for the short delay in getting back to you, your coin is an early Durotrigan quarter, the exact type isn’t in ABC but
it’s a variant of the standard ABC 2208 gold/electrum quarter but with one quadrant of the reverse stippled, probably
dates to the 50s BC. I’ve called it the Stippled type in my forthcoming book, there are around 40 others known at
present so not desperately rare; all the known provenances are in the Dorset/Hampshire/West Sussex region so
an Essex find would be exceptional.

The guys have been making some more amazing finds and I have posted a load more to the old site under Sept 2017 finds page.

One of our new land owners has added more huge fields for us to search. They are covered with all the usual targets but it will
takes us years to hot spot, just a few nice early milled silvers so far and the odd hammered silver coin.

Another new landowner, that lives in the oldest recorded house in the area at 12thC, has approached us to search his land. He has
6 fields behind a beautiful medieval church that have not been worked yet and he said he will ring me when ploughing starts in a couple of weeks.

Both Fl Alan and Org Artie both got there first Celtic gold with two pretty qtr staters. Cal Sarah popped a mint pin that looked so clean
I thought it was medieval but she found an exact type in pictures at the British Museum and it dates as Roman. The lack of oxygen and fertiliser
on previous pastureland protected it from rot, stunning find. The best relic so far is Fl Chuck’s Anglo Saxon bronze stamp for repousse work.
I have started to clean it and the recess work is almost 4mm deep. Lots of other neat relics posted to Sept 2017 finds page.

What a fantasic find, Anglo Saxon bronze stamp for repousse work. Recess in the pattern is 4mm thick.

This one isn’t “Republican”, strictly speaking – it belongs to the vague, in-betweensy period typically called “Imperatorial”, but which is not all that well-defined in time. It ends, definitively, with the accession of Augustus to the Imperial throne in 27 B.C. – when, exactly, it starts depends on who you are asking, but this era contains the rules of Julius Caesar, Pompey, Marcus Antonius, The “Triumvirates”, etc.In fact, this is an issue of Julius Caesar’s, c. 46/5 BC, struck at a mint in Spain. Diademed head of Venus Genetrix right, erote on shoulder / “Gallia” and a Gaulish captive bound, seated at base of trophy – it’s not legible (yet) but it should have “CAESAR” in the exergue. The Gaulish captive may be supposed to represent VircingetorixCrawford 468/1, Sydenham 1014; RSC Julius Caesar 13.Nice find! – that’s the second Caesar denarius your diggers have found recently in addition to all the Republican stuff – you must be on some late 1st century B.C. – or early 1st century AD (pre-invasion) site.Mark

The season has kicked off well on new land but hammered silver coins have been very thin on the ground.
Some real nice relics being found and I have started posting all finds to the old and new site in tandem.

Org Ed found our first ever Ottoman gold coin above, Org Gary got two gold finds, a modern gold ring and the first treasure of the
season a stunning 16th Tudor pin head. Nh Dave made the 4th gold find with a beauty Cunobelin Celtic full stater off brand new land.